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Jasiewicz, Joanna. "Ethnic Minorities� Mobilization and Transnational Networks � the case of Poland" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2010-03-12 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p241729_index.html>

Jasiewicz, J. K. , 2008-07-31 "Ethnic Minorities� Mobilization and Transnational Networks � the case of Poland" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2010-03-12 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p241729_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: The second half of the 20th century was characterized by debate on the implementation of minorities� rights, both in the United States and Western Europe. Poland, like other Central Eastern European states, was not able to participate in this process until the 1990s. Since 1989, one observes a significant and rapid increase in legislation that refers to the protection of minorities� rights in Poland. This paper aims to explain the above mentioned increase by examining the impact of the international body of European Union known as the �acquis communautaire�, which states aspiring to membership in the UE needed to fulfill. On the other hand, anti-discrimination prescriptions, by influencing domestic law, modified the structure of political opportunity, opening new possibilities for action to ethnic groups. While it facilitated the ethnic minorities� political mobilization, EU law was not decisive in determining the different ethnic minorities' success in having their demands met. I argue that transnational networks and linkages matter in the different ethnic minorities' success. I will examine the transnational networks in which different ethnic groups are embedded, assuming that they variously empower these groups and allow them to break loose from the constraints imposed by the nation-state in ways that allow them to shape domestic politics from outside the state's boundaries.

Explaining Intra-state Variation in Ethnic Group Mobilization. The Estonian State Restoration and the Political Mobilization of the "Russian-speakers" Category

Race and Ethnic Differences in Religious Based Political Behavior: Is the Religious Right Just Another Political Interest Group?